Eight lambs were born on the farm this month. At last check, all were healthy and doing just fine. I'll visit and check on them this weekend. I'll be sure to report back to you.
scene from the purple wall week 2
I know, this is a black and white image. Well… I didn't say that I would leave the wall purple every week. As a matter of fact, I fully intend to og as many directions as I can with this weekly project. Who knows where I will go next week. I do have a few ideas, so we will just have to see which ones work out.
For now, you get to enjoy one of the rare selfies from me. I generaly don't enjoy them. Primarilly because I don't know how to pose or what kind of facial expression to use. For this one, I woke up at four in the morning & knew I couldn't get back to sleep. So, I set up the lighting gear and tripod and shot about a dozen frames. This one turned out to be the keeper. Howeever, there was a close second place photo as well.
THis pose just seemed to awkward to come in first place. I also like the way the white shirt in the first selfie pops against the dark wall.
Stay tuned to next week and we will both discover what happens in front of the purple wall this week. Have a wonderful week.
rubber pants
Can you handle another old photo from my babyhood? I would have been about a year and a half old. I don't wear the rubber pants any longer, but you never know, I am in my 50s and they can't be ruled out in the future. I do sport that fat belly. I lost it in my teens, twenties and thirties. However, I found it again in my fourties and it has been a constant companion ever since.
Enjoy your weekend folks. I hope your Friday is the start to a great one.
main concourse
Today'simage is of the main concourse located at Cincinnati's Museum Center, an art deco train station dating from the early 1930s. Architecture is a subject that I find fascinating, especially buildings such as this one with wonderful design and history combined into one location. Being such a fan, I have to admit that I am very uneducated ont he subject. I am a fan will little to back up my fascination. I just like what I see and every once in a while, I learn something along the way. this is definitely a case of just likeing something and not feeling the need to understand why.
I think this is the second post in a row where I am coming off as a typical male. Maybe I need to look into this.
laughter
Laughter is a wonderful thing. My home, thanks to a large degree to my beautiful wife (not pictured here), is full of laughter. We don't need much of an excuse to laugh. Laughter and music are two of the most common sounds you will hear when visiting us. The result is a very happy home.
I am not trying to say that our home doesn't have it's times of tears or grumbling. It does. We are normal people living normal lives. However, we are happy and we laugh, and in my mind, the two are deeply connected. One may be the cause of the other. I don't know. I am a man and I don't delve too deeply into "feelings". For me, it's enough to have happiness and laughter sitting side by side in a place of prominence in our home.
Laughter… it's a wonderful thing.
When I was working on this image of my friend Debbie, my wife was looking over my shoulder and she instantly reacted to the photo. The image is an out take from several other images, but because of the laughter, it is my favorite from the day. The image, my wife's reaction, the smiles, & the laughter are all rolled together for me into warm thoughts of my home and how lucky I am.
snowed
The temperatures approached 60F today… InJanuary! That’s crazy and my friend Pati is probably going nuts. In her opinion, it’s not winter without cold and snow. She’s from South Dakota, so she would know. Me, I am going to enjoy this brief respite from winter’s wrath.
the Forrest for the trees
This used to be a massive printing plant full of huge presses. Now, it is used as a storage facility. Slowly the building has decayed over the decades and it is in the process of being torn down. All that junk? Old Harley Davidson spare parts going back to the seventies. You name it from tires to gas tanks. Such a waste.
infinity and beyond
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| Infinity and Beyond |
admiration
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| Woman admiring statue |
Some people are very interested in art while others could care less. It must be tough visiting an art museum when one of you is bored right from the start. I am an art lover and can spend hours in any of the many art museums around Ohio. This photo was taken on a recent trip to the Cincinnati Art Museum with my friend Jim Nash and his sons. It’s a good thing that all of us were enjoying everything the museum had to offer. Otherwise, it would have been a very long day, as I suspect it was for the gentleman in this image.
tracks in the snow
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| Rail Yard, Cincinnati, Ohio |
This image was taken this past weekend in Cincinnati, at the Museum Center. This was a particularly nice photo outing with stops for a great burger and beer at lunch, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Museum Center to see the trains and the Dead Sea Scrolls. I’ll be surety share more images from the day in the next few posts.
Have a great day!
tim mcmurdo 